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HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB
Don't know if you heard or not but 1-800Flowers was the recipient of another bomb threat yesterday....Yep another one. ...and guess who went in with the cops to search the bldg for a bomb ... non other than our fearless leader (my manager) Ms Helen Harris. Has she got Brass or what!
I came in after the fact from my lunch hour, to a parking lot full of fire engines and people standing by the street. No one was able to tell me much of what was happening but they started herding people back into the building ...just like Aushwitz : [ Me? I wasn't goin' there.
I told one of the "herders" to call Ms Helen outside but she was already in a meeting with Buster Brown our site manager so I asked him to make note that I didn't feel safe and was leaving. "Didn't feel safe" was an understatement.
I know the cops and I know they don't give 2 hoots about us and would only make a cursory run through and then get the heck out of there. They didn't even bring a Bomb Dog and 30 min later were telling us it was safe to go back in.
Later on when my mgr got out of the meeting she called me at home because she thought I might be emotionally distraught over the ordeal. I was so touched at that moment and even
more so later when I learned all the while she was waiting to see if the hatchet was going to come down on her head from NY headquarters because she was the one who made the call to evacuate the center...and if you know corporate mentality, stopping the flow of the Yankee Dollar is tantamount to professional suicide.
It was then she told me the threat came in from an 800 line so it could have gone to any of the call centers and most likely wasn't a local call to our site but she didn't want to take the chance that it might be real so she got everyone out of the bldg "just in case".
Then went back in with the cops to do a search she said, because she doesn't have a lot of confidence in the local PD and wanted to be sure we were gonna be safe_ What a woman!
She's my new hero for sure.
That's all the news that fit to spit.
I came in after the fact from my lunch hour, to a parking lot full of fire engines and people standing by the street. No one was able to tell me much of what was happening but they started herding people back into the building ...just like Aushwitz : [ Me? I wasn't goin' there.
I told one of the "herders" to call Ms Helen outside but she was already in a meeting with Buster Brown our site manager so I asked him to make note that I didn't feel safe and was leaving. "Didn't feel safe" was an understatement.
I know the cops and I know they don't give 2 hoots about us and would only make a cursory run through and then get the heck out of there. They didn't even bring a Bomb Dog and 30 min later were telling us it was safe to go back in.
Later on when my mgr got out of the meeting she called me at home because she thought I might be emotionally distraught over the ordeal. I was so touched at that moment and even
more so later when I learned all the while she was waiting to see if the hatchet was going to come down on her head from NY headquarters because she was the one who made the call to evacuate the center...and if you know corporate mentality, stopping the flow of the Yankee Dollar is tantamount to professional suicide.
It was then she told me the threat came in from an 800 line so it could have gone to any of the call centers and most likely wasn't a local call to our site but she didn't want to take the chance that it might be real so she got everyone out of the bldg "just in case".
Then went back in with the cops to do a search she said, because she doesn't have a lot of confidence in the local PD and wanted to be sure we were gonna be safe_ What a woman!
She's my new hero for sure.
That's all the news that fit to spit.
annoyed
I wanted the videos to play from this page not go to the host site. Time to feed the pack, guess I'll try again later.....I hope the website is easier to build. Something tells me it's not.
